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Miguel "Wildheart" (RCA (ASTERISK)(ASTERISK)(ASTERISK)) Proud to be iconoclastic, Miguel Jontel Pimentel explains himself on "What's Normal Anyway?", the seventh track on "Wildheart," the Los Angeles polymorphous and musically adventurous love man's third album. He describes himself as "too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans, too square to be a hood. . . . What's normal anyway?" Miguel, who moved past the straight-ahead R&B of his 2010 debut album, "All I Want Is You," to open up to rock and other influences on 2012's "Kaleidoscope Dream," is as good an example of the benefits of refusing...

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